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Blogging award instructions and help for nominees/nominators!

This is all pretty flexible and just to help out new nominees. Some bloggers choose to nominate less than 15 bloggers for example, and I didn’t nominate the total 39! Good luck! 🙂

Lovely Blogger Award rules/instructions:

1. Thank and link back to the person who nominated you (mention your nominator in your own award post with a link back to their original award post – in this case the Babka post).

2. Share 7 things about yourself.

3. Nominate 15 other bloggers and comment on their blogs (usually on their about page or contact directly if necessary) to let them know.

BADGE:

Blog Tour Award rules/instructions:

1. Pass the tour on to up to four other bloggers. Give them the rules and a specific Monday to post (usually on their about page or contact directly if necessary). .
2. Answer 4 questions about your creative process that lets other bloggers and visitors know what inspires you.
– What am I working on at the moment?
– How does my work differ to others in my genre?
– Why do I write/create what I do?
– How does my writing/creative process work?
3. Compose a one-time post which is posted on a specific Monday (date given by your nominator).
The date I’ve been asked to post on is 30 March (for my nominees the date is 30 April – flexible) (mention your nominator in your own award post with a link back to their original award post – in this case the Babka post)

BADGE:

Creative Blogger’s Award rules/instructions:

1. Nominate 15-20 blogs and notify all nominees via their social media/blogs (usually on their about page or contact directly if necessary).
2. Thank and post the link of the blog that nominated you – (mention your nominator in your own award post with a link back to their original award post – in this case the Babka post)
3. Share 5 facts about yourself to your readers

BADGE:

AND FINALLY: DISPLAY THE BADGE FOR YOUR AWARD ON YOUR HOME PAGE OR IF YOU ARE AVOIDING CLUTTER CREATE A NICE LITTLE SPACE FOR IT ON AN AWARD PAGE SOMEWHERE! 🙂

HOW TO DISPLAY A BADGE IN THE SIDEBAR (IF YOU’RE NOT ADDING IT TO AN AWARD PAGE)

To get the badge you can right click on it, go to View Image Info and click on that. Copy the URL that you can see highlighted. Now go to your Widgets section (Go to My sites, then WP admin, Dashboard; Appearance, Widgets). In Available Widgets choose Image and add to primary sidebar if you like then click Add Widget. Now paste the URL you copied in the box for Image URL. SAVE. Check your blog – you should see the award in your sidebar (you can change its position if you like, to go up or down but from the Widgets box). Hope that helps if you haven’t done this before! (I had to experiment a lot to get this far!!!) Let me know if it doesn’t work or you need any more info. 🙂

Also please let me know if I got anything wrong on this page! I’ve only been blogging 3 months!! 🙂

Lovely stuff you guys made from the blog!

A fantastic slice of Apple tarte tatin with Chinese 5 spices and Tamarind by Claudette, aka mum! :) It was very nice and using maple syrup is ‘genius’ she reports. The Pink Lady apples used were ‘lovely, juicy and firm’ and cooked on the ring a little over 10 mins. Plus the pastry browned quite quickly so was covered with foil towards the end.

Yummy wholemeal spelt croissants by Dookes. Very well-shaped and nicely risen too! ‘For a first attempt I have to say I’m pretty pleased. They certainly pass the taste test’ says Dookes.

Scrumptious orange & rum fruitcake-cake Anglais by Stéphanie in Tahiti ‘This cake is just delicious :) I brought one in the office today and it just vanished in a few minutes! Every one loved it :)’ she reports. Lovely local rum, vanilla, honey!

A stunning Gâteau Moka by Kate in Cornwall. The piping is wonderful and she was very pleased with it. She also mentions the cake was delish! :)

A delicious seed and nut loaf made by Claudette in London. She reports ‘cannot stop eating it … it is really delicious’ And she used more pumpkin than sunflower seeds and a little chestnut flour too.

Lovely brioche rolls made by Annette in New Zealand! ‘They turned out really well thanks, my boys certainly enjoyed them, all gone now!’ she reports. But be careful – she noticed that if you don’t use invert sugar or honey but just caster sugar, you’ll need to add a little extra water.

Extremely tasty-looking Lamingtons by Annette in New Zealand. Lovely and moist even without cream inside, she reports. So tempting piled up on that pretty plate. Yum!

A fabulous Raspberry charlotte by Kate! Loads of raspberries and great sponge finger casing! The assembly part was actually really easy! and ‘it tasted amazing’ she says, adding it ‘will definitely become a regular pudding in our household!’

A beautiful orange and rum fruitcake-cake Anglais fruitcake made by Dookes! Looks moist and delicious! Dookes’ comments: ‘seriously good!’ and ‘fantastico’!! You can find the guest post recipe at http://wp.me/p2sQo3-US And Dookes’ cake report is at https://hogriderdookes.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/lilis-biker-cake-made-and-tasted/ on his Hogrider Dookes blog.

What I made at the Cordon Bleu in Paris

Baba au rhum – rum baba

Diamants

Savoury petits fours with inverted puff pastry

Gateau Basque

Croquembouche

Le Jamaique – passion fruit and coconut mousse cake

Cake and Madeleines

Gateau Saint-Honoré

Passion fruit and raspberry tart

Milk chocolates – muscadines and pralinés

Viennoiserie – croissants, brioches, pains au chocolat

Wild strawberry treasure cake

Plating a rapsberry and anis macaron with raspberry coulis and anis cream